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On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you that you'll never kill someone while you're driving?


Pretty good. With well in excess of a million km driven, a valid driving license (something which no software product so far has been able to achieve), zero alcohol, zero drugs and no smartphone to distract me while driving. I see driving as a 'full time occupation'. My vehicle(s) (and that includes by bikes) are kept in tip-top condition, no expense spared, I'm fully aware that it isn't just my life that's on the line. I also have a standing order to my eldest that he is to shred my driving license when I turn 70 no matter how much I protest, and that's only 14 years away.

I'm all for self driving cars and I believe they are the future. I also believe they will be a decade or more in the coming and that we need at least one more level-up before AI sofware/hardware combos are solid enough that your typical self-driving solution will outperform an experienced driver.


Ah, then a fair question to ask might be how confident Kyle is that there won’t be an at-fault crash in the first million km driven.

(Or even better, what he predicts will be the distance driven per serious at-fault crash.)


Fair enough.


70 isn't too old to drive.


Neither is 71, 72, 73, 74 and so on, and then one day you really were too old to drive. In a country where driving is a necessity there is no way around this so you get a lot of people driving who really shouldn't be. To play it safe I've set the limit at 70 for myself because I think that if I don't put a hard line down I will always think 'one more year'. This avoids the gray area entirely, exactly because 70 isn't too old to drive.


I know a 62 year old that shouldn't drive. And I know a 76 year old that is fine. It really depends upon the person, but our dmv isn't fit to detect this.


I know people in their 20s/30s who probably shouldn’t drive…




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